RANGER ACTIVITIES DIVISION
                           MORNING REPORT

Attention: Directorate
           Regional and Park Chief Rangers, USPP, BIFC, FLETC
           CC: RAD Information Net

Day/date: Monday, January 8, 1990

INCIDENTS

90-3 - C&O Canal (Maryland/D.C.) - Oil Spill

At approximately 6:45 a.m. on the 4th, a truck carrying number four grade fuel
oil overturned on Route I-70 in Maryland and dumped about 3,000 gallons of oil
into a drain that empties into the canal near Licking Creek, just north of Four
Locks.  Although a culvert runs from the canal to the nearby Potomac River, oil
did not get into the river. NPS maintenance crews, assisted by Washington County
fire and rescue and Maryland DNR, began clean-up of the site later that morning;
an oil spill clean-up team was also sent by Hahn Transportation Company, the
owners of the truck. Because of the oil's viscosity, it is expected that 99% of
it will be recovered. (Mike Mastrangelo, CR, CHOH, via CompuServe message from
Tony Sisto, RAD/NCRO, 3 p.m., 1/5/90).

OFFICE NOTES

1) Many, many thanks to RAD/MWRO, RAD/MARO, Mammoth Cave, Grand Teton,
Grant-Kohrs, Canyonlands, Great Smokies, Glacier, Petersburg, Badlands, Pictured
Rocks, Delaware Water Gap, Jefferson National Expansion, Apostle Islands, Carl
Sandburg, and Pipestone for sending in slides in response to our request.  Your
submissions provided us with an excellent selection for the presentation.  We
will return them to you as soon as possible.

CALENDAR

Asterisks indicate new or revised entries:

February 13 - 15 - Workshop for Regional Resource Management Specialists,
Denver, CO.  Contact John Chapman (303-641-2337), Gary Johnston (FTS 343-8115)
or Kathy Jope (FTS 215-597-5372).

February 25 - 28 - National Conference on Urban Entomology, University of
Maryland, College Park, Maryland.  Contact Dr. Pat Zungoli, Department of
Entomology, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634-0365 (803-656-3111).

* March 11 - 14 - Columbus Quincentennial Conference, Santa Fe, NM. The
principal goal of the conference is to bring together in one place and at one
time representatives of as many organizations as possible that are or will be
planning special programs for or about 1992.

March 12 - 16 - Concessions Evaluation and Pricing, training course, Yosemite
NP, CA.  This 40-hour course is designed for NPS employees with concessions
responsibilities.  Participants will complete rate studies of various concession
services and conduct actual on-site concession evaluations in accordance with
policy and current administrative procedures. The filing deadline is January
31st.  Class size will be 20 people.  For further information, contact your
regional training officer or Ann Baugh at Albright TC (FTS 602-638-2691).

March 12 - April 3 - Park medic training program, Samaritan Health Services,
Phoenix, Arizona.  The 120-hour course is designed to prepare basic EMT's to
provide advanced pre-hospital care as a park medic. Those who complete the
course are eligible to take the national registry certificate examination for
I-EMT.  Contact Julie Wurch at 602-495-4285.

March 16 - 21 - North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference,
Denver, CO.  For further information, contact L.L. Williamson, Wildlife
Management Institute, 1101 14th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20005.

* March 19 - 23 - Fire Management for Managers, Boise, ID.  Training course on
all aspects of wildland fire from superintendents' perspective.  36 hours. 
Contact Paul Broyles at the Branch of Fire Management (FTS 554-1080 or
208-334-1080) or Ann Baugh at Albright (602-638-2691) for further information.

March 19 - 23 - "Fire and the Environment: Ecological and Cultural
Perspectives", international symposium, Knoxville, TN.  Contact program Chair,
Fire and Environment Symposium, P.O. Box 1701, University of Tennessee,
Knoxville, TN 37901-1071.

March 26 - 30 - Regional uniform coordinators' meeting, Nashville, TN.

May 28 - June 1 - International Symposium on the Biology of Deer, Mississippi
State, MS.  Contact Robert D. Brown, Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, P.O.
Drawer LW, Mississippi State, MS 39762.

(Calendar appears in each Monday's morning report.  If you know of a conference,
meeting or training session with Servicewide interest and implications, please
provide the specifics to Bill Halainen in Ranger Activities).    

STAFF STATUS

All hands on board.

Prepared by WASO Division of Ranger Activities

Telephone:	FTS 343-4874/6039 or 202-343-4874/6039
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